The pile of large boulders does not appear to be the best shelter to weather a storm such as the one that approaches, but they are all that you can reach in time. With large droplets of cold rain slapping at your face you veer Pallenten to the left and ride hard for the stones. When you reach the outcrop you make a surprising discovery. At some time in the past a number of the smaller boulders have been moved, placed in a roughly horse-shoe shaped mound. From a distance the boulder pile looks like a random jumble of stones, up close it has obviously been formed as a shelter of last resort by someone who would have to have been a very strong traveller indeed. As you dismount from Pallenten you can see a table-sized slab of stone has been laid across a few of the larger boulders to provide a simple shelter. The arrangement of the stones forms a small protected alcove within the pile. Although it is not much it will be enough to give you cover from the worst of the storm. After getting as much of Pallenten under the rockshelf as you can, you crawl in under her belly and await the deluge that is to come. You do not have to wait long.

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